Saturday, 31 December 2016

2016: Looking back on the blog

Life - and let’s face it, death – got in the way of blogging
a bit this year. I’m very aware that my plan to get in guest posters from my
ectopic days foundered almost from the outset, but I fully intend to get that
going again this year. I’m also aware that my “Gifts of Infertility” series has
languished for over a year now, but there are still a couple more I want to
write. I don’t have any urge to shut down the blog, or to stop thinking or
writing about living a no kidding life, but everything slowed this year,
including commenting, and I’m neither pleased nor proud of that.

So rather than set specific resolutions requiring improved
performance next year, which is just asking for failure, I thought I’d share some
of my favourite posts I wrote this year.

I wrote a series about the idea that “you
can achieve anything you put your mind to it.” These were some of my best
posts, and were an important part of the message I wanted to give this year, especially the message at the very end of the series - that we too have privilege.

This is of course a nod to Mel who used to run the Crème de la Crème,
where we would list our favourite post of the year, and always provided
inspiring reading. So even though it doesn’t happen officially now, I hope that
you too will list your favourite posts from your own blogs, on your blogs.

2 comments:

I loved the "putting your mind to it" series, that view along with the "never give up" is just so prevalent in the TTC. And your posts about privilege in the infertility world also gave me a lot to think about.

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About Me

This is my blog on living and loving life without children after infertility. Currently I'm a blogger, a self-employed businessperson, amateur photographer, and keen traveller - though I'm an armchair traveller right now, along with the rest of the world.

This is a space for thoughts on my No Kidding lifestyle, the good and the bad, remembering what was lost, and celebrating what I have.

My husband and I are the stereotypical couple without children who love to travel. I am (at) travellingMali on Instagram and there I post photos of various trips internationally, past and present, and of NZ travels, along with the occasional photos from where I live.

In 2013 I travelled in Europe and the Middle East for five months, and kept a blog at Lemons to Limoncello.

I also had a travelblog some years ago, but stopped posting in 2012. You can find it at Mali's Travelalphablog. I'm hoping to start a travel blog again, so watch this space!